Prisoner has filed a lawsuit...

LOST LOCKS IN LOCKUP. A

April 16, 1989

ST. LOUIS — LOST LOCKS IN LOCKUP. A prisoner has filed a lawsuit seeking $100 for each of 250 hair follicles he contends fell out after he used a hair gel. Gregory Smith is in St. Louis City Jail awaiting trial on a rape charge. He said in his lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court last week that he lost much of his hair after using Pro 39 Gel Pomade for five weeks. Smith, 28, is seeking $25,000 in damages plus $1,000 in attorney fees and reimbursement of the cost of the gel. A spokesman for Special Teams Inc. of St. Louis, which makes the gel, declined to comment.